Charles Bellinger Stewart
Full Name: Charles Bellinger Tate StewartDate of birth: February 6, 1806
Date of death: July 28, 1885
Terms of Service
| Chamber | District | Dates of Service | Legislatures | Party | City/County | Note | Counties in District |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H | 14 | Jan 13, 1874 - Apr 18, 1876 | 14th (1) (2) (3) | Democrat | Montgomery / Montgomery | Harris, Montgomery | |
| H | 32 | Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853 | 4th | Montgomery / Montgomery | Montgomery | ||
| H | Montgomery | Feb 16, 1846 - Dec 13, 1847 | 1st | Montgomery / Montgomery | Grimes, Montgomery, Walker |
Terms of service footnotes
(1) Montgomery, Montgomery County. Directory of the Members and Officers of the Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Texas . . ., 1874. ↩
(2) Danville, Montgomery County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. ↩
(3) The marriage of C.B. Stewart and Julia Sheppard took place on March 11, 1836 at the home of Julia's father, W.W. Sheppard, who lived on land in the Lake Creek settlement that would later become the town of Montgomery in July of 1837, "The Marriage of Charles Bellinger Stewart, or, So, Mr. Stewart, Where Did You Go for Your Honeymoon?" Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project. ↩
Terms of Service
- Legislatures:
- 4th
- Party:
- Democrat
- Home City/County:
- Montgomery / Montgomery
- Counties in district:
- Montgomery
- Legislatures:
- 1st
- Party:
- Unknown
- Home City/County:
- Montgomery / Montgomery
- Counties in district:
- Grimes, Montgomery, Walker
Terms of service notes
(1) Montgomery, Montgomery County. Directory of the Members and Officers of the Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Texas . . ., 1874. ↩
(2) Danville, Montgomery County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. ↩
(3) The marriage of C.B. Stewart and Julia Sheppard took place on March 11, 1836 at the home of Julia's father, W.W. Sheppard, who lived on land in the Lake Creek settlement that would later become the town of Montgomery in July of 1837, "The Marriage of Charles Bellinger Stewart, or, So, Mr. Stewart, Where Did You Go for Your Honeymoon?" Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project. ↩
Biographical Information
- 75th Legislature, R.S., HR 1123. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
- Biographical sketch, p. 176. Birth date 2/18/1806, death date 7/28/1885. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845, 1942.
- Biographical sketch, Dr. Charles Bellinger Stewart, p. 266. Daughters of the Republic of Texas Patriot Ancestor Album, 1995.
- Charles B. Stewart (biographical sketch and portrait). Find a Grave.
- STEWART, CHARLES BELLINGER TATE (1806-1885). Handbook of Texas Online.
- Biographical sketch, included in list of doctors who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto, Ch. 5, Surgeons at San Jacinto, pp. 48, 58-59. The Medicine Man in Texas, 1930.
- Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart. Texas State Cemetery.
- Biographical sketches, marriage, obituaries, portrait, and text of Dr. Charles B. Stewart historical marker.
"Charles B. Stewart: Signer of the Declaration of Independence," reprinted from The Men Who Made Texas Free, by Sam Houston Dixon, 1924, Texas Historical Publishing Company, Houston, pp. 239-241.
"Dr. Charles B. Stewart: Statesman, Physician, Scientist, Scholar, Philosopher, and Patriot," reprinted from Houston Tribune Magazine Supplement, Vol. 1, No. 5. Birth date 2/18/1806.
"The Marriage of Charles Bellinger Stewart," by Kameron K. Searle. Marriage to Julia Shepperd on 3/11/1836.
"Montgomery County Texas Confirmed as the Birthplace of the Texas Lone Star Flag," which was designed by Dr. Charles B. Stewart of Montgomery County at the request of President Mirabeau B. Lamar.
Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project. Houston Tribune Lone Star Flag Marriage Portrait and historical marker The Men Who Made Texas Free
- "History of the Lake Creek Settlement . . . " by Kameron Searle. The Early History of Montgomery, Texas, 2011.
- Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1836. Journals of the Convention of the Free, Sovereign, and Independent People of Texas, in General Convention, Assembled. H.P.H. Gammel, The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897, Volume 1., The Gammel Book Company, 1898, pp. 821-904. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
- Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
- Photograph. C.R. Stewart, 14th Legislature, State Preservation Board
- 14th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
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